Peace Negotiations
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 10:26
A south Yemeni separatist leader on Wednesday walked out of national reconciliation talks meant chart a new constitution for U.S.-allied Yemen, setting back efforts to keep the fragile country together.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 09:27
The Syrian government plans to participate in the Jan. 22 Geneva peace talks designed to end the country’s civil war but President Bashar al-Assad will not “hand over power”, a foreign ministry source said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 08:21
The over 1,000-km road trip followed the recent routing of M 23 rebels in the region by the army. Following the recent defeat of M 23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, by the army and the Special Intervention Brigade of UN peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, President Joseph Kabila last week began a road tour of the region formerly held by the rebels.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 12:57
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They discussed a range of issues related to regional security.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 11:00
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki denounces recent violence in Yemen.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 10:16
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announces the convening of a Syrian peace conference in Geneva in late January 2014.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 09:15
The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) said on Tuesday his group would not join a planned peace conference in Switzerland in January and would pursue its fight to topple President Bashar al-Assad regardless.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 08:56
Has the M23 rebel group been defeated? No. And there is nothing in the recent reportage in major western media that tells anything close to the whole truth about the ongoing genocide and depopulation in DRC
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 07:37
Without deadly conflict since the 2006 Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) – stands in contrast to the fighting besetting the country’s other peripheries. But this peace is increasingly fragile. Seven years after the ESPA’s signing, the conflict’s root causes remain and in some respects are more acute, due to the failure to implement many of the agreement’s core provisions.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 10:07
A spokesman for Central African Republic President Michel Djotodia said the president has been in touch with fugitive warlord Joseph Kony, and that Kony is ready to surrender. U.S. special forces have been assisting African soldiers in hunting for Kony, the head of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army. Despite the recent reports, U.S. officials have questioned whether Kony is in fact ready to lay down his arms.